The new hire was most recently head of infrastructure equity at Aviva Investors.
She will develop the firm’s overall sales strategies and direct all external sales activities.
The plan approved commitments to private credit and non-core real estate at a meeting today.
The new hires will expand the firm’s client base in the Americas.
The $1.8 billion deal is expected to close in the second quarter.
A Great Lakes plan expects to issue an RFI for investment consulting and custodial services in March.
The plan will begin a domestic small-cap growth equity search in the next couple of weeks to be followed by core bond and small-cap value searches.
Plan hopes to hire a third-party firm in the third quarter to run its impending private markets advisor search.
A plan in the Midwest has launched a search for transition management services.
He has helped establish the firm’s new Dallas office.